Other than the many traditional cultural and religious fairs and festivals annually celebrated, flower shows, yachting races, concerts and theater performances were organized.

The flower had served as a symbol of cancer awareness since the 1950s, when volunteers for the Society organized a fundraising tea in Toronto ; the volunteers used daffodils to decorate the tables, as they thought it would create hope that cancer could be beaten.

He organized shows at a resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

This is one way of representing human language that shows how different components are organized hierarchically.

Most communities across the country will host organized celebrations for Canada Day, usually outdoor public events, such as parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, air and maritime shows, fireworks, and free musical concerts, as well as citizenship ceremonies for new citizens.

Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements ; however, in public or non-commercial radio, music is sometimes played in place of commercials to separate the program segments.

Australian Royal shows are organized by state agricultural and horticultural societies, and are described further in the agricultural show article.

Nelsonville is organized around a public square, where, every month, a " Final Friday " celebration is held, with vendors, art show openings, and often shows at the recently-renovated Stuart's Opera House, an old theater from the 19th century.

On March 12 & 13, 1993, Al Kooper organized two shows at the Bottom Line in NYC that were advertised as " A Silver Anniversary Celebration Of The Classic Album The Child Is Father To The Man ", which featured Al, Randy Brecker, Jim Fielder, Steve Katz and Fred Lipsius playing together for the first time in twenty five years, accompanied by Anton Fig, Tom Malone, Lew Soloff, John Simon and Jimmy Vivino, as well as a two woman chorus and string section.

One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.

Ritzer shows how Weber's central characteristics of rationalized systems-efficiency, predictability, calculability, substitution of non-human for human technology and control over uncertainty-have found widespread expression in a broad range of organized human activity, including travel, consumer products and services, education, leisure, politics and religion as well as in the fast food industry.

Since her first solo exhibition in 1958, Martin ’ s work has been the subject of more than 85 solo shows and two retrospectives including the survey, Agnes Martin, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, which later traveled to Milwaukee, Miami, Houston and Madrid ( 1992 – 94 ) and Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1974 – 1990 organized by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, with subsequent venues in France and Germany ( 1991 – 92 ).

The network was organized on September 29, 1934, with the members contracting for telephone-line transmission facilities and agreeing to collectively enter into contracts with advertisers for their networked shows.

The army formed a Special Services unit that organized such shows and supervised the USO, and the experience from the Soldier Shows led to Irving Berlin's Broadway show This Is the Army.

As organized Baathist resistance crumbled, the F / A-18s were increasingly tasked to provide ' shows of force ' to encourage Iraqi forces to surrender.

* Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes during the Copper Age.

The New York Correspondence School Show organized in 1970 by Johnson and Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum in New York is considered the first important public exhibition of the genre and helped set the ground rules for future shows.

In 1988 — the year she graduated from Goldsmiths — she exhibited in the Damien Hirst-curated Freeze exhibition, and in 1990 the Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas organized East Country Yard shows, which brought together many of the Young British Artists.

To counter negative publicity, Mariska Majoor, founder of the Prostitution Information Center, organized two " open days " in February 2006 and March 2007, allowing visitors access to some window brothels and peep shows and informing them about the working conditions there.

It began in the 1880s when several Western cities followed up on touring Wild West shows and organized celebrations that included rodeo activities.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s shows were organized by MOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Since 1986 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection has worked with the United States Information Agency, the US Department of State and the Fund for Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions in the organization of the visual arts exhibitions at the US Pavilion, while the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has organized the comparable shows at the Architecture Biennales.

SSD organized their own shows, not playing at typical venues, such as punk rock mainstay The Rat, because those clubs served alcohol.

At a party organized for all the significant figures in Heaven, Bajie saw the Goddess of the Moon for the first time and was captivated by her beauty.

The magazine is organized into the following sections: fashion, beauty, health, love, and life.

Carousel Productions organized and launched the first Miss Earth beauty pageant in 2001 to actively promote the preservation of the environment.

The Miss Hong Kong Pageant (), or Miss HK ( 港姐 ) for short, is a beauty pageant organized by the leading Hong Kong television station, Television Broadcasts ( TVB ).

In 1920 he organized a beauty contest whose winner was to be chosen by filmgoers.

Starting in 1947, several different groups organized national beauty contests, some of which carried the name Miss France.

Miss Chinese International Pageant ( Chinese: before 2007: 國際華裔小姐競選, 2007 onwards: 國際中華小姐競選 ) or MCI ( Chinese: 華姐 ) for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a leading network television station in Hong Kong.

After her husband died three years after their marriage, Giulia organized her palace as a center of culture, attracting the attention of many of her contemporaries as much for these activities as for her famous beauty, though she refused to marry again.

The counter ceremony was first held in 1980, organized by Mary Moore, a former beauty queen turned left-wing activist.

While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motor boat racing ; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing ; and navigational contests ( generally a test of celestial and landmark-based navigation skills where GPS and other electronic navigation equipment is disallowed ) are among the events which are organized around the world.

Karaoke contests, sumo matches, and other forms of entertainment are often organized in conjunction with matsuri.

These contests are organized by FFA advisors and local experts.

Many DX-peditions are organized around various radio contests that happen throughout the year.

* Alliance Challenges: " To leverage partnerships ," contests organized in collaboration with non-government partners

At first only regional contests were held, organized by the Orange County Academic Decathlon Corporation ( OCAD ) with the assistance of the Orange County Department of Education.

These early Series were less organized than the modern version, with as few as three games played and as many as fifteen, and the contests of 1885 and 1890 ending in disputed ties.

Also, there were team contests organized for schools to compete for District, City or Regional honors.

In maths, there were contests organized for cities to compete for Republican and All-Union honors.

The Office for University Culture and Extension organizes multiple showings, organized visits, recitals, literary, painting and photography contests, and more.

Similar competitions were also conducted during the summers of 1983 and 1984 when Day organized the players in many U. S. states to form teams and compete in high score contests for the Guinness Book of World Records.

It started as a popular fad in the 1920s and 1930s, when organized dance endurance contests attracted people to compete to achieve fame or win monetary prizes.

They organized dance festivals and contests and invited jazz bands.

Competitive eating is most popular in the United States and Japan, where organized professional eating contests often offer $ 10, 000 or more in prize money.

A smaller organized league, the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters ( AICE ), established by competitive eater Arnie " Chowhound " Chapman, also sanctions contests.

The authors, Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky, then started the first organized trivia contests, described below.

During the later part of the 16th century Amsterdams Rederijkerskamer ( Chamber of Rhetoric ) organized contests between different Chambers in the reading of poetry and drama.

Kinetic sculpture races are organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art.

Several programming contests were organized, and some winning games were published in cartridge form and sold to the public, like Judgement Silversword-Rebirth Edition-and Dicing Knight Period.

In Gladstone's case, he soon started to rival his cousin in a number of personal wagers and organized contests.